Arthur Mahon

Arthur Mahon was a British Army officer who served in the Royal Irish Regiment during World War I.

Biography
Arthur Mahon was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland to a working-class Irish Catholic family. He was the brother of Jimmy Mahon, and he later married a woman named Peggy and had three children with her. While Jimmy was a staunch Irish republican who was blacklisted from employment due to his seditious activities, Arthur was a loyal British citizen who decided to serve in the British Army during World War I in order to provide his family with income. Mahon served in the Middle Eastern front of the war, capturing a Turkish officer's pistol in the process. In April 1916, he returned home for two weeks' leave, and he evicted his brother from his home after discovering his possession of a rifle with the goal of using it to fight alongside the Irish Citizen Army; he also suspected that his brother had been having an affair with his wife in his absence.